Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just hours after the Geneva negotiators disbanded, new Soviet Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev all but accused Washington of having entered the new round in bad faith. Gorbachev said the first round "already provides grounds to say that Washington does not seek agreement with the Soviet Union," in part because "it refuses in general to discuss the question of preventing the arms race from spreading to space...
...many defense contractors cheat the Government? Just "a few bad apples," is Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's reply. But last week the Pentagon's inspector general, Joseph Sherick, startled a House subcommittee by revealing that 45 of the 100 largest defense contractors are under investigation for possible illegalities relating to their military work. Sherick said he will recommend that Weinberger ban two top executives of General Dynamics, Chairman David Lewis and Chief Financial Officer Gordon MacDonald, from dealing with Pentagon contracts. The firm recently agreed to repay the Government $244 million in improperly charged expenses. Such a blackball would...
...refused to allow him to operate without supervision because of questionable surgical judgment. He later resigned from that facility. After a stint at the Pittsburgh hospital, Billig, a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, was recruited by the Navy. At Bethesda, things began to go bad after ten months. In 1983 the hospital suspended Billig's surgery credentials, later reinstating them. Some reports say the Navy knew of Billig's New Jersey history when it approached him; a naval investigation is to begin this week...
...review is constantly making references to the production being "less like" a rendition of Hamlet and more like a throwback on the tacky culture of the 1970's. This is ironic. In fact, Freshman's review is "less like" comment on Dalton's production and more evocative of bad journalism...
...Vietnam appears to have gone back in time Conditions there are as bad as they were in the darkest hours of the war," said George Esper, an Associated Press reporter who witnessed the Communist take-over of South Vietnam in April, 1975. He was recently allowed to tour that country...